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      Basic cadastral surveying plan

      The basic cadastral surveying plan serves as a background plan in raster form. It may also be superimposed with additional thematic data.
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      Collection of the cadastral surveying data

      Learn more about Swiss cadastral surveying methods and measuring technology and geographic information system (GIS) data processing.
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      The Swiss Cadastral Survey provides data relating to landownership and is the basis for a variety of geographic data and applications.
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      CadastralWebMap WMS is a presentation service, providing digital cadastral surveying data in reduced form.
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      Use the Cadastralinfo service to access data relating to the Swiss cadastral system and to find plot numbers in Switzerland.
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      Overview of the status of the cadastral surveying and the standard of quality of the collected data.
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      Cadastral survey data are collected, managed and updated by the cantons. Here you can access the geoportals of the cantons.
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      Get extracts from the Cadastre of Public-law Restrictions on landownership (PLR Cadastre) as an online map or a Pdf document.
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      Learn about geodetic fundamentals of Switzerland's Cadastral Surveying: coordinates, reference system and reference frame.
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      The GeoMeta Web Map Service provides information about cadastral surveying status and the continuous adaptation process of official geodata.
      GNSS – low distortion areas

      This dataset provides information about the locations of low distortion areas, i.e. areas with a high degree of geometric precision.
      Geographic names

      The cadastral surveying enables standardisation of geographic names in Switzerland, including district, place, street and station names.
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      History of the Swiss cadastral system

      Real estate data have been used for more than 300 years – initially for tax collection purposes, but today they are also used for recording landownership rights, as well as for a broad variety of other purposes.
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      Information material & shop

      The information material about the world of Swiss cadastral surveying is available from the Federal Directorate of Cadastral Surveying.
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      Overview of the legal bases for the cadastral surveying and the PLR-cadastre
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      In Switzerland, cantons are responsible for keeping records in their land registers. Access is usually organised through municipality.
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      Landowners’ rights in Switzerland are officially recorded in the Land Register. Together with the PLR Cadastre, this is the basis for safeguarding landownership.
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      MOpublic is the simplified version of the cadastral surveying data model, and has been specified as the official Swiss standard.
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      The Swiss cadastral system records and manages objects with a spatial dimension and makes them publicly available. The resulting data form the basis for other datasets and applications.
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      The Cadastre of Public Law Restrictions on Landownership is the official information system concerning public-law restrictions on landownership in Switzerland.
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      Plan for the land register

      The plan for the land register records location, form and content of a plot of land. This is the most foundation for safeguarding landownership in Switzerland.
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      Responsibility & organisation

      The federal government is responsible for the supervision of the cadastral system, while the cantons are responsible for its operational management.
      Register of surveyors

      Only those persons who are listed in the register of surveyors are authorised to independently carry out cadastral surveying tasks.
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      Overview of the status of the periodical update of the cadastral survey
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      Training & further education

      The cadastral surveying system offers a variety of attractive and specialised jobs for people with various levels of education, ranging from surveyors to geodata managers.
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      Web Map Service is the presentation service for digital usage and representation of cadastral surveying maps and plans on the Internet.
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Coordinates

The cadastral survey provides geometric data relating to land ownership: for example, information about the boundary points of a plot of land. The location of each of these points is indicated using coordinates.

Coordinates are used for describing the exact position of a location on the ground, or on a map or plan. They normally take the form of figures that indicate the distance of the location concerned from the two coordinate axes. Coordinate axes are placed perpendicular to one another and run from south to north or from west to east. The point at which these axes intercept is referred to as the point of origin or «zero» point.

If a location is to be described three-dimensionally, a third coordinate is required that indicates the height.

Oblique, conformal cylinder projection

Switzerland’s coordinates system
The zero point of Switzerland’s coordinates system is located in Bern: its coordinates are E = 2,600,000 and N = 1,200,000

Switzerland’s coordinates system

Switzerland’s coordinates system

The zero point of Switzerland’s coordinates system is located in Bern: its coordinates are E = 2,600,000 and N = 1,200,000

Since 1903, the calculation of coordinates has been based on oblique cylinder projection. Here the globe is projected onto a cylinder. When the cylinder is «unrolled», a rectangular coordinates system is obtained for Switzerland representing the lines of latitude and longitude encompassing the globe.

The currently valid coordinates of the control points in Switzerland were resurveyed by the Federal Office of Topography swisstopo in the 1990s with a degree of accuracy within the centimetre range, using satellite technology and the Global Positioning System (GPS). We refer to this as national survey 1995 (LV95).
It secures the connection to the European reference system and facilitates the exchange of data beyond the country’s borders.

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